Sea and Seeing exhibition 2023

I am delighted to share these images with you from the 'Sea and Seeing' exhibition held as part of 'Wild Hope' at RMIT Design Hub last weekend. The immersive event refashioned single-use plastics into fashion garments. My work, 'Another Unsuitable Replacement’, depicted a repeat pattern of dune flowers applied to plastic produce bags that were sewn into fabric.

Thank you to Dr Denise Sprynskyj and Dr Peter Boyd of S!X for including my work. Model photography by Tiahne Frederic.

The art of wildflower walks: Understanding place through creative practice

It’s a sheer delight to share the publication of the journal article “The art of wildflower walks: Understanding place through creative practice” co-authored with Dr Sue Davis.

The article, published in the International Journal of Education Through Art, shares the embodied experience of walking and creative enquiry as means of informing and stimulating art and design processes and practices.

Stuart, M. & Davis, S. (2023), The art of wildflower walks: Understanding place through creative practice, International Journal of Education through Art, 19:2, pp. 213–21, https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00127_3

Abstract:

Art and design processes and practices can inform and stimulate knowledge building in powerful ways. Artist/designer Marni Stuart and artist/curator Susan Davis have employed creative practice to inform their own seeing and knowing of the natural spaces that surround them in South East Queensland, Australia. Through art and design practice they seek to share ways for others to ‘see’, appreciate and value these natural habitats and wildflower heritage.